Rd ICTs and Society Meeting; Paper Session - Theorizing the Internet; Paper 4

A Methodological Reflection on Converging Technologies and Their Relevance to Informa-tion Ethics

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ID21188106
AuthorsPak‐Hang Wong (0000-0001-8720-9912, University of Twente, corresponding author), Pak-Hang Wong (University of Twente)
Year2010
Volume8
Issue2
Pages130-132
Publication date2010-06-26
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuetripleC Communication Capitalism & Critique Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1726-670X • E-ISSN: 1726-670X
PublisherInformation Society Research (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.31269/triplec.v8i2.215
OpenAlexW1551805629
LanguageEN
References cited3

In light of converging technologies, there is a clear sense that ethicists of various technological domains are coming together. Or, that they should come together. Yet, despite increasing cooperation and boundary-crossing in various fields of the ethics of technology, these efforts remain mostly at topical level. Relatively little attention has been given to issues on methodologies. The current paper aims to contribute to the current research by raising the methodological issues. In this paper, my objective is to argue that ethics of Information Technology (or Information Ethics (IE)) can benefit from the insights in other fields of the ethics of technology. Drawing the insights from other fields of the ethics of technology, I shall propose a systematic account of an Empirical Information Ethics (EIE)

Applied ethics · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Ethics of technology · ICTS · Information and Communications Technology · Information ethics · Information technology · Knowledge management · Meta-ethics · Political science · Sociology · The Internet · Computer Science · Engineering · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI · Law · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · Privacy, Security, and Data Protection

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